Reblog: January 24 to January 30
Photo credit – Husso
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just...
2014-01-31
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Blog Posts
See Consolidated Data About SQLSaturday (Events, Sponsors, And Speakers)
Yesterday Kendal Van Dyke posted a file to Skydrive with consolidated information from all the events published so far. He...
2014-01-31
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SQL Prompt – new features in version 6.x
I’ve been using SQL Prompt for years. In September 2013, version 6 was released (quickly followed by 6.1 in late...
2014-01-31 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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2013 with You & SQL Server
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney...
2014-01-30
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Database Project Versioning
SSDT 2010, 2012 with TFS integration brought about a couple of different options when you are looking to version your...
2014-01-30
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Final Day for Power BI Voting, Can I Have Your?
Today is the final day for the Power BI Contest voting and I could use your help to move on...
2014-01-30
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It May Be Necessary Re-enable Service Broker After Baremetal Restore
After the restore of a database, or perhaps a bare-metal restore of a Windows server running SQL Server, unique IDs...
2014-01-30
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Non-unique indexes that COULD be unique
In my last post I showed a query to identify non-unique indexes that should be unique.
You maybe have some other...
2014-01-30
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Security, Compliance, and SQL Server – Recording Now Available
If you missed it live you get a second chance! http://www.mssqltips.com/sql-server-video/284/security-compliance-and-sql-server-video/. Had about 300 attend and more questions than we...
2014-01-30
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SSIS Training class by Andy Leonard
Andy Leonard (b | t | l | f) of Linchpin People, has announced a new training class called ‘From Zero to SSIS‘. The first class...
2014-01-30
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Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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